Dragon wrote:
> Gregor Schneider wrote:
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>> On 11/6/07, Ryan Barnett 
>> <<mailto:Ryan.Barnettbreach.com>Ryan.Barnettbreach.com> wrote:
>> > Why not a URL where we can view it?
>> [Ryan Barnett] Here you go -
>> <http://apachebenchmark.sourcefor
ge.net/CIS_Apache_Benchmark_v2.1.doc>http://apachebenchma
rk.sourceforge.net/CIS_Apache_Benchmark_v2.1.doc 
>>
>>
>>
>> ehem - great, however, there's no such thing like
ms word on my 
>> machine - hope it's not too much asking for a
pdf-version... *cough*
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> Nor do you need it. Open Office can handle that sort of
file too, and 
> it is both free and open source, it also runs on every
major OS. It 
> works quite nicely for me using it at home to work on
all sorts of MS 
> format documents generated at work in MS applications.
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/

>
> Which is not to say that your comment about providing a
document in 
> PDF is without merit.
>
> Dragon
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Also, Microsoft distributes free viewers for each of the
major office 
formats (word, excel, pp, perhaps publisher) that you can
use if you 
just want to read a file in .doc format. However my best
suggestion is 
to take Dragon's advice. Open office is quite sufficient for
all the 
msoffice opening/editing/saving I've had to do. I actually
used it to 
recover my resume from word 97 format, update and make some
changes, and 
save it in a word 2003 format without a blink, and it came
out quite 
well (must have, I got the job and I'm writing from there
now 

Anyway, you're right. We shouldn't have to rely on and have
proprietary 
formats forced on us at every turn, but on the other hand
pdf is just 
another proprietary format that somebody won't want to use.

Unfortunately without an open document format, there's
always going to 
be somebody saying "Could you give us a Lotus file, or
perhaps a 
WordPerfect 2.0 compatible file?".

I guess what I'm trying to say is, get Open Office, get an 
open-source/non-adobe pdf reader, then download the gimp,
blender, and 
ubuntu if at all possible 

Or we could just get a pdf 

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